# Job for a Meditator **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062 "2004-09-20T00:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hearthstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@hearthstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hearthstone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/1 "2004-09-20T00:26:25Z")
Lighthouse Keeper, Fire Lookout, those would be perfect jobs for me right now, but I fear that those no longer exist. Are there any such solitary, somewhere away from people, in wilderness located jobs anymore? And if so, where are they? Thanks, Mr. Jan Hearthstone. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/2 "2004-09-20T00:49:42Z")
[Resources and Reflections on Hermits and Solitude](http://www.hermitary.com/) ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/3 "2004-09-20T02:07:43Z")
How about being a [backcountry ranger?](http://www.nps.gov/yell/technical/jobs/backcty.htm) ---
**Author:** ![hearthstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@hearthstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hearthstone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/4 "2004-09-20T21:53:34Z")
> [@MikeS](#): > > How about being a [backcountry ranger?](http://www.nps.gov/yell/technical/jobs/backcty.htm) Sounds good, but I need a lot of time for meditating and studying–I don’t think that would be possible for me should I be a ranger. Thanks Mike! Sincerely - H.S. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/5 "2004-09-20T22:50:29Z")
Just delete one letter in the title and you’ll have work for life. ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/6 "2004-09-21T00:08:50Z")
Not sure about the States, but we have heaps of jobs like this. Mostly working for the Department of Conservation, removing not wanted plants from out lying islands, or catching rats or possums (pests) from islands or bush land, or counting kiwis or other native birds mostly on islands. ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/7 "2004-09-21T00:09:59Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Just delete one letter in the title and you’ll have work for life. Editator? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/8 "2004-09-21T01:11:39Z")
How about museum curator on South Georgia Island? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/9 "2004-09-21T01:27:42Z")
> [@MelCthefirst](#): > > Editator? Someone give that man a red pencil! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-for-a-meditator/265062/10 "2004-09-21T03:41:14Z")
> [@hearthstone](#): > > Lighthouse Keeper, Fire Lookout, those would be perfect jobs for me right now, but I fear that those no longer exist. > Are there any such solitary, somewhere away from people, in wilderness located jobs anymore? And if so, where are they? > Thanks, Mr. Jan Hearthstone. For fire lookout positions check with [US Forest Service](http://www.fs.fed.us/) or [The Bureau of Land Management](http://www.blm.gov/nhp/index.htp) Its seasonal, during fire season, of course. They don’t require previous experience. The posts are _very_ isolated. The lookout is expected to check in about every hour. He/she must have a clear speaking voice. The sites have a residence and a tower. The towers are open to the public, such as is found in these isolated areas, so it has to be kept clean & maintained. Typically, the tower is located at the end of a gravel service road, so the lookout doesn’t have to hike in. Otherwise, its just watch the forest for indications of young fires and report them before they become old fires.